Taxonomy of meanings for 囊:
- 囊 náng (OC: naaŋ MC: nɑŋ) 奴當切 平 廣韻：【袋也説文曰囊橐也又姓楚莊王子子囊之後以王父字爲氏奴當切二 】
Additional information about 囊
說文解字:
- Criteria
- BAG
[COMMON/RARE]
[GENERAL/SPECIFIC]
1. The current general word for a bag or sack is náng 囊.
[GENERAL]; [[COMMON]]
2. Tuó 橐 refers to bag, often made of leather, but sometimes also made of cloth; one type of tuò 橐 is constructed as a combination of two sacks with their openings close together, worn over one's shoulder or placed across the back of a camel. See illustration. Often used as a travelling bag.
[SPECIALISED]; [[RARE]]
NB: Dài 袋, guǒ 裹, dōu 兜 are all post-Buddhist medieaval Chinese colloquial.
- CATCH
1. The common general word is 獲 (ant. shì 釋 "set free") which can refer to the capturing or obtaining of anything that might conceivably try to escape (for dé 得 "obtain what generally does not try to escape capture" see OBTAIN).
2. Qǔ 取 (ant. shě 捨 "relinguish, reject") is to take control of by force and applies typically to enemy territories or enemy cities in a conflict. See WIN
3. Chí 持 (ant. shī 失 "lose hold of") refers to the capturing of non-human prey.
4. Zhi 執 (refers to the capturing of any human and non-human prey. See also ARREST.
5. Náng 囊 is specifically to capture by the use of a sack or bag.
6. Guà 絓 refers to catching something on a hook, typically a hook attached to a string.
7. Wò 握 is specifically to catch and get hold of something with one's bare hands.
8. Yú 漁 refers very specifically to the catching and killing of fish. [See ANGLE]
9. Dé 得 "obtain" can sometimes come to refer to catching what is trying to escape capture.
10. Bǔ 捕 refers to catching animals typically in a habitual or professional way.
NB: Zhuō 捉 came to mean "catch" in post-Han times.